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“Freedom from fear, humiliation, poverty, disease, freedom for everyone, in my opinion, is our current goal of development,” said President Dmitry Medvedev today, speaking about modernization and reform. Whatever ...
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VTB Still Hanging On
VTB has been edging closer and closer to securing a majority stake in Bank of Moscow. Last month, it was agreed that it would buy the Kremlin’s 46.5% stake (which, at $3.5 billion, was priced well above City Hall’s valuation of t...
VTB Still Hanging On
VTB has been edging closer and closer to securing a majority stake in Bank of Moscow. Last month, it was agreed that it would buy the Kremlin’s 46.5% stake (which, at $3.5 billion, was priced well above City Hall’s valuation of t...
Huda Seif: Shaken Regimes Get Desperate
In the current surge of pro-democracy movements against the dictators of the Arab world, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime appears determined to stay in power at any cost. Using a full range of lethal force and no hesitation in violating inte...
Huda Seif: Shaken Regimes Get Desperate
In the current surge of pro-democracy movements against the dictators of the Arab world, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime appears determined to stay in power at any cost. Using a full range of lethal force and no hesitation in violating inte...
Energy Blast – March 4, 2011
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko could force coal mining companies to allocate a third of their profits for safety spending, responding to high numbers of miner deaths thought to have been caused by safety violations. Output at TNK-BP’s ...
Energy Blast – March 4, 2011
Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko could force coal mining companies to allocate a third of their profits for safety spending, responding to high numbers of miner deaths thought to have been caused by safety violations. Output at TNK-BP’s ...
Today in Russian Business – March 4, 2011
Russia’s four top telecoms operators, Mobile TeleSystems, MegaFon, VimpelCom and Rostelecom, have signed an agreement to work together on new Russian 4G mobile networks, based on technology owned by Yota (Scartel). ‘[I]t is clear that ...
Today in Russian Business – March 4, 2011
Russia’s four top telecoms operators, Mobile TeleSystems, MegaFon, VimpelCom and Rostelecom, have signed an agreement to work together on new Russian 4G mobile networks, based on technology owned by Yota (Scartel). ‘[I]t is clear that ...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 4, 2011
TODAY: Voina members attacked; Rogozin speaks out against Libya no-fly zone; United Russia unconcerned about unrest; Medvedev casts himself as a liberator; Tula governor to be sacked? Half of Yabloko’s election nominees banned. Bolshoi...
